Peru has approved the highly controversial expansion of the Camisea gas project onto the land of isolated Amazon tribes - who will be put at risk of a massive death toll or extinction from introduced diseases.

Slash and burn creates good soil to harvest but only for a limited time. After a few years of harvesting on it, the soil is damaged and no good. Farmers then leave tis poor soil and slash and burn another part of the Amazon Rainforest

Last week, Ecuador's National Assembly voted to allow oil drilling in the Yasuni National Park. This drilling project would produce 980 million barrels of crude oil and roughly $18.3 billion in profit for Ecuador, but the environmental toll on the park wo

Intensive land modification in many parts of the Brazilian Amazon is exposing large numbers of species to pesticides with unknown impacts, according to Luis Schiesari of the University of São Paulo, Brazil

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Ecuador's state oil company resumed pumping through the country's main pipeline on Tuesday, 4 days after it was damaged by a landslide. But crude spilled by the accident reached tributaries of the Amazon River and polluted drinking water downstream.